Developers
Keep your grid position and hit every milestone, without a bigger development team.
Your job is to get your project to energisation and keep its grid position. We prepare the paperwork round it, and you approve it.
The work that gets in the way
The offer signing window is easy to miss
NESO says an unsigned Gate 2 offer can be rescinded and replaced by a Gate 1 offer. DNO-managed offers have their own response deadlines.
A 5 MVA demand application needs maturity evidence
Missing authority, land or project information can delay assessment while consultants assemble the pack.
A full cable study starts before the route is tested
Comparing route options first helps you choose which option to take into the detailed study.
What changes
Works with all three. Most useful first: HVCO, OpsWork, Letterbox.
HVCO
Route options appraisal
Routes compared on the checks you choose and on cost; the cheapest option that passes is flagged.
Network area, proposed from your route
Proposes the network area from your route’s first point, using NESO area outlines. You confirm it, and the source is shown.
Cable design and crossing study
A draft cable design and crossing study, with calculation worksheets.
OpsWork
Letterbox
Built around a working HV design firm
Saqib Shah has 16 years in HV design. Saqib Engineering is an ISO 9001 certified HV design consultancy in Rotherham.
Our own firm: why we built OpsWork
Built by a UK HV design firm that handles G99 applications and cable route studies for renewable developers.
OpsWork runs in your own Microsoft 365 and Azure UK South. You approve what leaves.
HVCO puts sources beside values for your engineer to check.